{"id":4762,"date":"2021-12-15T06:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2021-12-15T06:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:13:25","slug":"shirley-mcbay-pioneering-mathematician-is-dead-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/shirley-mcbay-pioneering-mathematician-is-dead-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley McBay, Pioneering Mathematician, Is Dead at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/14\/science\/shirley-mcbay-dead.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shirley McBay, Pioneering Mathematician, Is Dead at 86<\/a> [NY Times Obituary &#8211; paywall]<\/p>\n<p>The first Black student to receive a doctorate from the University of Georgia, she devoted her life to advocating for diversity in science and math education. <\/p>\n<p>By Clay Risen Dec. 14, 2021<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/12\/14\/obituaries\/14McBay-02\/14McBay-02-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeft unattended, the resulting resegregation of U.S. education will ensure continued domination of this country\u2019s academic, business and military leadership by nonminorities,\u201d she wrote in the journal Issues in Science and Technology in 2003. \u201cIt will reinforce myths about racial superiority. It will further erode the hopes and aspirations of a rapidly growing and younger portion of our population, a population upon which America\u2019s future well-being depends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley McBay, Pioneering Mathematician, Is Dead at 86 [NY Times Obituary &#8211; paywall] The first Black student to receive a doctorate from the University of Georgia, she devoted her life to advocating for diversity in science and math education. By Clay Risen Dec. 14, 2021 \u201cLeft unattended, the resulting resegregation of U.S. education will ensure &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/shirley-mcbay-pioneering-mathematician-is-dead-at-86\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2148,13,14,15],"tags":[86,127,3840,3836,2062,3839,3838,3835,3834,3841,3843,2955,3832,3837,3842],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4762","6":"format-standard","7":"category-obituaries","8":"category-politics","9":"category-racism","10":"category-science","11":"post_tag-86","12":"post_tag-african-american","13":"post_tag-black-students","14":"post_tag-chemistry","15":"post_tag-m-i-t","16":"post_tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","17":"post_tag-mathematician","18":"post_tag-mathematics","19":"post_tag-ph-d","20":"post_tag-quality-education-for-minorities","21":"post_tag-resegregation","22":"post_tag-segregation","23":"post_tag-shirley-mcbay","24":"post_tag-spelman-college","25":"post_tag-students-of-color"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}